[OGDev] Upgrading Birmingham OpenGuides

[Barbie]

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 06:07:09PM +0100, Kake L Pugh wrote:
> On Mon 21 May 2007, Barbie <barbie at missbarbell.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hurrah!

Indeed :)

> I upgraded Vegan Oxford from an oldish version, and it Just Worked -
> it converted the database schema when I did "perl Build install".

Well I'll keep my fingers crossed it all goes smoothly for BrumOG too :)

> The idea is that what I've done is completely pluggable - it'd be easy
> to write a module that would call several other modules in order to
> make its decision.

Would you be able to remove a module by actually deleting it and for
everything still to work? Or probably more appropriate, add a new plugin
simply by copying it into the appropriate directory? I use
Module::Pluggable for autodetection with other things and it just works
(tm) :) It saves a lot of configuration.

> > In addition the Birmingham OpenGuides has a rollback feature ..
> 
> I don't think we have that - and I think it would be very useful!

Okay I'll have a look at the new code when I get the chance and send a
patch.

> Many of the new templates come from splitting out sections of the
> older, more monolithic/complicated templates.  I'm happy to help with
> CSS munging where necessary, having spent quite some time playing with
> various OpenGuides designs recently.

Cool. I'm glad you've moved towards a CSS way of presentation, it makes
playing with skins alot easier :)

Well I plan to try and copy everything over during this week, and will
let you know how I get on.

Cheers,
Barbie.
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